Furniture



l (No Model.)

`J. GRAMKE, Jr.

FURNITURE. No. 428,090. Patented May 20, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH GRAMKE, JR., OF OINCINN ATI, OHIO.

FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 428,090, dated May 20,1890.

Application tiled April 19 1889. Serial No. 307,707. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GRAMKE, Jr., a citizen of the United States,residingV at Cincinnaii, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Household Furniture, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to articles of household-furniture-such as bureaus,washstands, dressing-cases, hat-racks, &c.-its object being to provideaconvenient novelty especially useful as applied to dressing-cases,hat-racks, and the like.

The invention consists in the combination, with a drawer of suchdressing-case or other piece of furniture, of an auxiliary receptaclelocated beneath the surface of the piece 'of furniture, and connectingmechanism whereby upon opening the drawer, the lid of the auxiliaryreceptacle is opened, and by closing the `drawer the lid of theauxiliary receptacle is closed.

It also consists in a semicircular pivoted drawer which maybe opened bydrawing out either side, and, lastly, in the combination,

with such semicircular pivoted drawer, of two auxiliary surfacereceptacles arranged at the sides and opened or closed alternately byopposite movements of the drawer.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-AFigure lis a perspective elevation of my invention applied in apreferred mode to a hat-rack; Fig. 2, a partial perspective view ofsame, showing the drawerand the corresponding receptacle open. Fig. 3 isa plan View with the top removed, showing the relative position andattachments of the drawer and the receptacles; Fig. 4, a detail verticalcrosssection showing the construction of the receptacle and its guidesand the position and engagement of the elevating-flange upon the drawer;and Fig. 5, a rear View of the drawer, showing its elevating-flange.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the hat-rack ordressing-case to which the invention is applied; B, the drawer; C, theiiat top or table of the hat-rack. The construction is in the usual formand requires no special description, excepting as hereinafter specified.

The special construction and arrangement of the drawer and of theauxiliaryreceptacles,

as herein illustrated and described, is preferred with aview'to symmetryof design and general convenience, but may be varied.

The drawer B is semicircular in form and held by vertical pivots p atthe center of the front panel. Thus pivoted it swings outward into theposition shown in Fig. 2, in which one half is exposed, or into adiametricallyopposite position, in which the oppositehalf is exposed. Itmay therefore be provided with a central radial partition fc, dividingit into two compartment-s.

At either side of the space occupied bythe drawer I arrange openingsthrough the flat top or table C, provided with hinged covers a, whichwhen closed lie flush with said table and constitute part of the generalsurface.

Beneath the covers and of a size corresponding with the openings throughthe table I arrange boxes or receptacles b, secured upon guide-pedestalsc, projecting downward vertically in guide-blocks d, secured to thebottom of the drawer-casing and projecting upward to the bottom of thereceptacle Z) as a support when in its lowest position. Theguide-pedestals c stand in their guide-blocks d at the side of thedrawer and engage with the drawer by means of a lateral lugprojectinginto a corresponding slot in the wall of the drawer, or, as shown in theillustration, by means of a ange e upon the drawer projecting into anopen slot in the face of the pedestal c. The flange e is horizontaltoward the ends of the drawer, but is inclined upward toward themid-point in such relation that when the drawer is closed theguide-pedestal c will stand at its lowest point, and as the drawer isopened the guide-pedestal will be carried upward, lifting the receptacleb to its elevated position. In rising the receptacle Z9 carries up thecover a, which turns on its hinges into the position shown in Fig. 2,and as the extent of elevation of the receptacle is made to correspondwith the thickness of the cover b the cover will stand vertical, asshown, and is again closed by shutting the drawer.

As arranged in the illustration given, the hat-rack is provided with tworeceptacles placed at the sides of a marble center slab f, and theliange e, arranged upon the drawer, as shown in Fig. 5, will elevate oneor the IOO other receptacle, according as one side or the other of thedrawer B is drawn ont. A single receptacle may be arranged, however,occupying either of the positions indicated by dotted lines in Fig.

The attachment ot the auxiliary receptacle may be made to an ordinarysliding drawersuch as indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3-,-bythe same means.

rlhe usefulness of the device in connection with a dresser or hat-rackis apparent where the opening et` a towel-drawer also opens a receptacleexposingr a brush and comb, dsc.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States- 1. In a dressing-table or similar article of furniture,the combination of a drawer opening horizontally, an auxiliaryreceptacle adjacent thereto and opening vertically through the table, aside flange upon the drawer, and engaging' attachments upon saidreceptacle, whereby the opening of the drawer causes said receptacle toopen, substantially as set forth.

2. In a dressing-table or similar article of furniture, the combinationof a horizontal selnieircular drawer centrally pivoted and provided witha peripheral inclined flange, and a receptacle opening through thetabletop adjacent to the drawer and engaging said iiange and adapted tobe raised and opened thereby through and by the opening of the drawer,substantially as set forth.

3. In a dressing-table or similar article ot furniture, the combinationof a semieircular drawer centrally pivoted in the drawer-opening at itsfront edge and swinging open upon its pivot in either direct-ien, andone or more auxiliary receptacles opening upwardly at the sides of thedrawer, having covers forming part of the tableesurface, a flange orflanges upon the curved sides of the drawer, and engaging attachmentsupon said receptacles, whereby the receptacles are opened by the openingof the drawer, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH GRAMKE, Jn. Titnessesz L. M. I IosEA, ELLA HosEA.

